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How To Build a Tuition Trap

JackWoodward Wrote: Apr 26, 2012 9:26 AM

Amazing how these items become a crisis just prior to elections. Watch for this issue to be incorporated into a general theme as the Occupy movement adopts student loan forgiveness as part of its platform http://mywtfblog.com/2012/03/the-next-manufactured-crisis/ I tend to agree that this is how the Left plans to recapture the passion of the youth vote in this election cycle.

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Kali_Fred Wrote: Apr 26, 2012 3:22 PM

Yes, obama's entire campaign is based on giving people free stuff. "Vote for me and I'll give you free stuff. You already get free stuff? I'll give you more free stuff..." What a country.

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How To Build a Tuition Trap

This week, President Barack Obama has been warning students that without his intervention, interest rates for a federal student loan program will double to 6.8 percent July 1.

In the process, he's been misquoting a Republican congresswoman. On Tuesday, he told students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that she has "very little tolerance for people who (say) they graduate with debt, because there's no reason for that."

And: "She said students who rack up student loan debt are just sitting on their butts, having opportunity 'dumped in your lap.'"

The audience booed.

The congresswoman in question is Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C.,...

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